Hiding in a foibe
Sometimes we have days where everything seems stacked against us, although it didn’t feel like that right from the beginning… We both had limited sleep even though we had got […]
Category Archives: Slovenia
Nothing to see here…
Some days are uneventful and don’t warrant writing about… this was one of those days. Turn away if you want anything intetesting to happen. Waking up next to our beautiful […]
Idrija to Cerknisko Jezero
The landscape of Europe is littered with the remains of past borders and the fortifications that defended them. Our morning started next to the overgrown remains of a vast bunker […]
Mines mines mines.
After spending an evening listening to some gobshite playing the accordian like it was going out of fashion, we skipped out of our campsite at an early hour and unfortunately […]
War things mainly….
For our own sanity and wellbeing we decided that today we would have a full day off to relax and sort out our gear. Although the hostel is a major […]
The smell of cycling.
We stink. Not through exercise and sweat as you may imagine, but because of the persistent rain and damp we are enduring. I’ve not smelt a bag of dead kittens […]
The Vrsic Pass
We have often said that cycling is more of a psychological challenge than a physical one, finding the determination to carry on every day, cycling long distances at a slow […]
Another amazing host family
Although we had waxed lyrical about how we wake up early in order to seize the day and all that, we were not up at 7am when Marjan and Branca […]
Home alone!
20th August This would never happen at home… once again we are amazed, not only at the kindness of strangers, but at the extreme levels of trustworthiness shown by people […]
Sam and Sheena Cycle 